“The Dittinghaus on Hafnerstrasse, this slightly run-down property in the high-priced Kreis5 district, is the venue for an exhibition. The three floors are buzzing, flashing and sounding. And it smells too, because a kitchen turns waste into sparkling food and serves it. We like to call it the Midas-Stübli, after King Midas, who turned shit into gold. But that would be wrong, because the discarded goods were not spoiled. My nose only reacts sensitively even on the third floor because I’m fighting a stomach virus that has nothing to do with the culinary art of Lauren Wildbolz, a Master’s student in Transdisciplinarity.
But Hi-Lo-Cuisine has a lot to do with a structure that I encountered again and again during these two days: It is the dialog of different skills, styles, languages – within a work itself. Waste and sushi, amateurish and virtuoso bodies, advanced images and teenage poetry, loss of control and score: these polarities haunt my two long house calls. Does transdisciplinarity (read slowly, then it goes better: transdisciplinarity), does transdisciplinarity ultimately mean above all that a work of art shows different points of view and calls for mindfulness?
The exhibition is called “Showroom Z+: Representation Formats in Transition” and occupies almost all the rooms in the building, including the offices of the Z+ department, where the transdisciplinarity specialists work, to whom I report as an observer. I counted 19 show contributions from students from all ZHdK departments, and after two days it was all over again.”
Source
Tobi Müller :
Observer-in-Residence ZHdK
Next, we are invited to Perla-Mode on Langstrasse for a week with our project:
here.
